In your book â€˜Pure Effectâ€™, you discuss how important you feel it is for an audience to actually be able to see the act of mind reading taking place.

Your own take on this is wonderfully plain to see in your performances. The way you look at, touch and physically manipulate a participant makes it clear to the audience that you are actually in the process of plucking a thought from a mind.

However, despite your passionate espousal of this very visual mentalism, I am always amazed by the number of working pros, performing on both dvd and live on stage, who just stare into space, scratch their chin, umm and ahh a bit and then reveal their participantâ€™s thought.

I wonder, does this rather nonchalent performance style irritate or disappoint you and do you wish that more performers would work harder at thinking about how the mind reading process should actually look?

"There are times when the truth is necessary and times when myth-making is necessary." Nick Cave

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Posted: Sep 17, 2004 03:11 am

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Still wondering....

"There are times when the truth is necessary and times when myth-making is necessary." Nick Cave